Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide is celebrating a momentous milestone

Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide is celebrating a momentous milestone: 25 million people are currently listed as potential marrow donors on worldwide donor registries: This record number of registry members gives greater hope to blood cancer patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals around the world

Welcome to Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide

Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide (BMDW) is the continuing effort to collect the HLA phenotypes and other relevant data of volunteer stem cell donors and cord blood units, and is responsible for the co-ordination of their worldwide distribution. Participants are 75 stem cell donor registries from 53 countries, and 52 cord blood registries from 36 countries.

The current number of donors and cord blood units in the BMDW database is:

26,535,618 (25,868,797 donors and 666,821 CBU's)

There are currently 917 users from 561 organisations authorized to access the on-line BMDW services.

Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide started as an initiative of the Immunobiology Working Party of the European Group of Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) in 1988. In February 1989 the first edition was distributed, which contained the donor files of eight registries with a total of 155,000 volunteer stem cell donors.

On-line Match Programs

If you are looking for the on-line match programs, click on the "BMDW Match Programs" link in the menu. To request access to the on-line services, go to the Authorization page and follow the instructions.